Elizabeth forrest

A professional artist/printmaker, Elizabeth specialized in printmaking at the Ontario College of Art, and later instructed in all print media there for seven years. She travelled to Kyoto to research Japanese colour woodcut (mokuhanga) and remained in Japan for 11 years developing her practice and exhibiting her work. Subsequently she returned to Toronto and became affiliated with Open Studio where she exhibited in a number of solo and group exhibitions and taught mokuhanga workshops. Teaching for a living, she completed a body of work during summers at Gibralter Point Artlodge, 2001-2007 and did a Newfoundland residency in 2012.

Elizabeth moved to Waterloo in 2018, where she has become active teaching mokuhanga and pochoir at the Button Factory, volunteering with the Grand River Artist Collective (formerly Artspay) and exhibiting in various local group exhibitions. In 2022 she won the City of Waterloo design competition for shade and barrier structures at Sunview and Hickory Street Parks. She currently bases her practice in digital drawing and mokuhanga sometimes combining the two. In Spring of 2025 she completed a print-based residency at Gabriola Island, BC. Her work can be found in a number of institutional and corporate collections in Canada and abroad.